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To be translated as Mission Afghanistan: An Army Doctor's Memoir, which will be published by SparkPress in September 2018.

A memoir by Dr. Élie Paul Cohen, a civilian emergency physician recruited to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan. A pacifist in his youth, Élie had once refused conscription and military service in France. But decades later, a surreal sequence of events involving the Israeli, British and French intelligence services led him to join the French Military. Deployed in Afghanistan as a liaison emergency doctor in Camp Bastion, the largest British Military base since World War II, Élie’s mission was to study Damage Control Resuscitation, a new treatment for polytraumatized soldiers, developed by British medics in Afghanistan, so that he might share it with the French Military Health Service. A story of war and medicine that turns into a tale of personal transformation.